Westie2 said:
Hi Lynbrown
Your Pharmacist was acting professionally and in your best interests by refusing to sell you an anti fungal cream. You need to discuss this with your GP, as the presence of a fungal infection in a diabetic needs further examination as it could be a symptom of an underlying problem. All HCPs know that if a patient/customer has a diabetic foot problem they should be referred.
There are suitable creams for purchase but get it checked out first and in the meantime follow good foot hygiene.
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Good solid advice Westie 2 I agree with you, hence my comment "It might be a good idea to determine whether the cream is acceptable for your condition".
The thing is, we don't know lynbrown's reasoning behind wishing to purchase medicine/cream directly from the chemist.
Keeping in mind that despite the chemist's refusal to sell her the cream, she still has a mind to purchase over the counter foot care.
Hopefully, if lynbrown comes back to read her post she'll take note of the well intentioned replies.
willie.
Neil Walters said:
Actually this sounds like good advice - go see your doctor and if appropriate he will prescribe a 3 month course of pills that will treat the infection and make it go away - take it from someone who has had athlete's foot and toe nail fungal infections for many years due to my diabetes and all of the over the counter treatments are rubbish but are very expensive rubbish.
H to you too Neil Walters.
I've had athletes foot for many years also.
My doctor informed me that in some cases, the infection can take the
minimum of one year to eradicate the problem.
He offered me pills, but decided against them as I've to take so many of them for the all different health problems I have.
So the alternative was foot cream which I gladly accepted.
I'm prescribed "Terbinafine Hydrochlorde (Lamisil)" mentioned in my first reply. It can be bought over the counter as per link in my first post.
I agree that many meds available for purchase over the counter are not as powerful as medically prescribed meds.
So with utmost respect to you, I would suggest my doctor would never have prescribed the cream if it was "rubbish", ie available for purchase over the counter.
Incidentally, I think "Lamisil" is the generic name.
Best wishes to both of you.
willie.